Knowledge of medical and paramedical students about Patient Rights and its relationship with some factors in Iran

Defense of human rights to dignity and honor him. To ensure his protection in times of illness, without any discrimination, age, sexual and financial power is the right clients. Medical stuff is responsible for Preserve and protects these rights. Patients are necessary to respect fundamental rights and the rights of patients, sometimes because of ignorance, neglected by the busy work and medical staff, will be ignored. Present survey which is a cross sectional descriptive- analytic was conducted on 270 medical students of Hamedan in simple randomized sampling. Data collecting instruments were an interviewing form contains demographic information and educational questions regarding patient rights which its reliability and validity were made through the same measurement by two researchers. Data using the software SPSS, using descriptive and inferential statistics were analyzed. Based on survey results mean of training needs score was 10/3±3. High educational need was 31%, medium 53%, and low training need was only 16%, in total. There was not any statistically significant relationship between the training needs of any demographic variables. According to this study, most health personnel awareness of patient rights is low. So, promote awareness in the field of educational planning should be done. Patient Rights is an valuable act, but when it is fully implemented that be performed culturally appropriate, comprehensive attention to the rights of all stakeholders, Identifying barriers, strategies to implement the Charter, and be considered respect the rights of patients as an indicator of the health services center.